Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 41

* That is a town that is just rising into importance; a lively town that has steam-boats and stagecoaches: formerly people called it ugly, but that is no longer true.

Who acts: That, town, lively town, formerly people · What happens: be, rise, have, call · To what, where: town, importance, steam boats · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, town, lively town, formerly people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	*	*	PUNCT	_	5 town	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 town	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 town	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 rising	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rising	aux
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 rising	advmod
9	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 town	acl:relcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 importance	case
11	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rising	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 town	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 town	det
14	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 town	amod
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 town	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 town	acl:relcl
18	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 boats	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 steam	punct
20	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 has	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stagecoaches	cc
22	stagecoaches	stagecoach	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 boats	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
24	formerly	formerly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 called	nsubj
26	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 boats	acl:relcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 called	obj
28	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 called	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 true	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 true	cc
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 true	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 true	cop
33	no	no	ADV	_	34 longer	advmod
34	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 true	advmod
35	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 has	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 town	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a town and a lively town			tree rules
2	rise	present · progressive	a town and a lively town		importance		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into importance=Initial_Location
3	have	present	a lively town	steam boats and stagecoaches			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient
4	call	past	formerly people	importance		ugly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
5	is	present	that			long, true property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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